Hand-sifter



(No Model.)

J. R. STORIE.

. HAND SIFTBR. No. 482,511. Patented Sept. 13, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

JOSHUA RAYMAN STORIE, OF TRAVISVILLE, TENNESSEE.

HAN D-SIFTER.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.`482,511, dated September 13, 1892.

Application led May 12, 1892. Serial No. 432,798. (No model.)

sifters The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive hand-sifter which may be readily operated and in which the agitator will be in convenient position for use.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a sifter constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plain view, partly in section.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a rectangular receptacle composed of sides 2, ends 3 and 4, and a wire-gauze bottom 5, forming a sieve. The receptacle is provided at one end with a handle 6, which is longitudinallydisposed and is hollow, having acentrallongitudinal opening orbore,in which is arranged a stem 6 of an agitator 7. The agitator is constructed of a single piece of wire, and tits flat against the Wire-gauze bot* tom, and has a somewhat serpentine shape, and consists of aseries of transverse parallel portions. The agitator is formed integral with the stern and is connected therewith by an L-shaped portion 8 and is provided at its outer end with a handle-loop 9, which is ar ranged at the Outer end of the handle 6 and is in convenient reach of the operator. The sifter is held in one hand by the handle 6, and the handle-loop or the stern 4of the agitator is within convenient reach of the other hand and may be readily reciprocated to move the agitator over the surface of the sieve.

It will be seen that the sifter is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction and convenient in Operation.

What I claim is- A sifter consisting of a receptacle having a wire-gauze bottom and provided with a hollow handle extending longitudinally of the receptacle and an agitator arranged on the wiregauze bottom and provided with a stein arranged within the handle and adapted to reciprocate in the same and extended beyondA its Outer end and provided with a handle, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSHUA RAYMAN STORIE.

W'itnesses:

JOHN C. HURsT, W. M. JOHNSON. 

